Yvain comments on The Blue-Minimizing Robot - Less Wrong

162 Post author: Yvain 04 July 2011 10:26PM

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Comment author: Yvain 04 July 2011 06:54:38PM 2 points [-]

I think we agree, especially when you use the word "reflective". As opposed to, say, a reflex, which is an unconscious, nonreflective effort to acheive something which evolution or our designers decided to "want" for us. When the robot's reflection that shooting the hologram projector instead of the hologram fails to motivate it to do so, I start doubting its behaviors are goal-driven, and suspecting they're reflexive.